looks nice. I hope to do mine soon.
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looks nice. I hope to do mine soon.
Just a tip... if you guys are gonna do this,#1 pull the cladding off the vehicle (the paint will better "wrap" around the edges, and prevent future lifting or peeling) #2 get a cleaner (like ''scuff stuff"or pre-clean) clean all of it, all the way around, and allow to dry thoroughly #3 scuff it up a bit with 380 or 400 paper ( pay attention to edges-screw holes. scuff everywhere #4 use good paint(SEM trim and bumper) consider an adhesion promoter (Bulldog) Several thinner coats are much better than a couple of heavy ones. Allow maximum drying time before reassembly Schedule a whole weekeend, don't be in a hurry. Follow all these steps, and you will enjoy a professional, long lasting, upgrade. Wayne
I did this one a bit different than before.
I did pull the front nose cladding off, but not the rest.
I washed and
then used prep paint grease wax remover,
scuffed with scotch brite pads,
then again used the paint prep grease/wax remover,
then I used an aderhison promoter primmer (3 coats)
then about three coats of the bumper coating.
I'm letting it cure for about 3 days.
Painted the cladding bolts silver. Looks very cool.
I'm working on the inside too. I replaced them rear speakers and added a sub to the back. Just need to button inside back up.
My moms is still holding up great.about 6 months now.
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Wow, the pics look great. A few Q's, beware that I don't know much about paint and almost feel like I should find someone who can help me with this or do it for me, but:
If a shopping cart or something similar hits this cladding after it's painted, will that area need to be touched up?
Are there any disadvantages to having the cladding painted?
I think painting the cladding on a Proton would be a big improvement and look great.
If the paint gets bumped off, yes it will need to be touched up.
Here she is:
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Deer whistles:, maybe (knock on wood) things just don't happen to me, but I have had them on the VX and my truck and had never had a problem with deer. Now watch, tomorrow morning a herd of deer and elk will fall on me from a great height. I mounted them right where etlsport mentioned. They blend right in and their is room for the PIAA 2100 series driving lights in the same hole.
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2008 Cal. candidate!! :smack::smack:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Miller
-biju
where did you get the honeycomb grill?
Looks to be the stock grill, just painted. I could be wrong. The one from VXConcepts has a small honeycomb pattern.Quote:
Originally Posted by JHarris1385
@Mark Miller
Your knew VX is looking pretty nice!
Hey Mark,
Did you paint your hood insert too? I really need to redo all my cladding and the insert. Hopefully in a month or two.
The grill is just painted.
When I get the chance I'm painting the mirror housings and the hood insert( satin black).
Mr. Miller, thank you for the inspiration. I am going to paint my cladding! BUT I am going for Dupli-Color's bed coating on the cladding for a slightly more "aggressive" look. Later, I am going to use the bumper paint for the mirrors, hood insert, grill, roof rails and wing, and also, the half moon. Who knows, I might even paint the cladding bolts silver! Wish me luck, I am off to the store to get stuff! :)
Just be careful with that Bedliner paint ZEUS, I am sure you have seen the post where someone did theirs with the roller type bedliner and it looks like gravity took effect. They had kind of an uneven coating with sags and ripples and such. I know others have done it and it looks great though. IMHO it looks awesome and I think I will do mine sooner or later.
I think you mean SPAZZ, who spray-coated his entire VX with LineX. It looks a lot better in person than it does on screen - the screen adds 5 pounds ya know! I tested the look of the DupliColor bedliner on my trailer and I think it is going to look great on the trailer AND the cladding. I pulled the front bumper last night so I could do a better job on it. I will test it on the backside first though.
LOL!!! Yeah, I know, I did the Duplicolor? bedliner on my truck's bed about 8 years ago with the rattlecan version and it worked out great. I also recently used some on my spare FAL rifle magazines to add some grip. I just wasn't so sure about the roll-on/spray-on approach since some people had commented about SPAZZ's pics at the time. Good luck man, can't wait to see how it turns out!Quote:
the screen adds 5 pounds ya know
It's been almost a year or so now...
How is the bumper paint holding up???
thanks,
---JIM---
I just painted a Line-X bro (bra) :) Thursday. I liked it so much I took it back Saturday and had the front cladding done. It looks really good IMO. I want to take some pics after I get a good cleaning on it. I'll do it this weekend.
Peace.
Tom
012009
Are those pics in your gallery tom? I'll go check when I am done reading. I have been away from the forums, hardly being online at all for a while But I have been browsing and searching today. Have I missed any north Texas get togethers? I should give someone my contact phone number in case I am not online when stuff happens locally.
LOL....Here is the update: 8 years later on the painting of the cladding. The paint on the cladding lasted about 3-4 years. I painted it again and it lasted 3-4 years. Now in 2014 I painted it again......
I also painted the door handles and roof rack.
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